Myth in Art & Creativity
How myths shaped painting, poetry and music, and creative prompts inspired by the Muses.
How to Read a Greek Vase: Shape, Technique, Scene and Maker
A four-question method for reading Greek vases in museums: what the shape was for, black- or red-figure technique, who is in the scene and who made it.
Read · 6 min read →Myth in Art & CreativityMyth in Renaissance Painting: Raphael, Botticelli and Titian
What Raphael's Parnassus, Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, and Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne show, and how they compare with ancient texts.
Read · 6 min read →Myth in Art & CreativityGreek Myth in English Poetry: Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson
How Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Tennyson reshaped Greek myth, read beside the translations, notes and ancient texts behind their poems.
Read · 5 min read →Myth in Art & CreativityMyth in Music: Orpheus at the Opera and Apollo at the Ballet
From Peri and Monteverdi to Gluck and Stravinsky: how the Orpheus myth shaped early opera and how composers changed the ancient story.
Read · 6 min read →Myth in Art & CreativityWriting Prompts From the Muses: 18 Exercises From Ancient Texts
Eighteen original creative writing prompts, each built on a quoted public-domain passage from Hesiod, Homer, Ovid, Virgil or Keats.
Read · 5 min read →Myth in Art & CreativitySeeing Greek Art in Museums: Copies, Color, Repairs and Labels
What to look for in the Greek galleries: Roman versions of lost originals, old restorations, traces of paint and the wording on museum labels.
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